CN Editorial Team – Page 182 – First World War Centenary News Archive

October 14, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Poet Andrew Motion to read at Leeds University Centenary commemorations

The former UK Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, will be taking part in events marking the First World War Centenary at Leeds University on October 22nd 2014.

October 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The UK National Archives releases interactive online map to reveal the global reach of the First World War

Launched in the summer of 2014, First World War: A Global View, is part of UK’s National Archives’ ongoing Centenary programme. First World War 100 is designed to help members of the public search through First World War records.

October 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War Sikh and Commonwealth soldiers remembered at Leicester University

Sikh and Commonwealth soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War will be remembered in a lecture series at Leicester University on October 18th 2014.

End Date: 18 Oct 2014

October 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Ireland to take part in UK Cenotaph service on Remembrance Sunday

The Irish Government will a wreath for the first time at the Cenotaph Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London on November 9th 2014.

October 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: New Zealand troops leave for War

The main body of New Zealand troops who enlisted to fight in the First World War sailed from Wellington on October 16th 1914.

October 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The UK Guardian marks the centenary with an online interactive documentary

The Guardian online First World War documentary, launched in 2014, is available in 7 different languages, with the voices of 10 historians from across the world.

October 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Exhibition: ‘World War I in Vienna – City Life in Photography and Graphic Art’

A new exhibition at the Wien Museum (Vienna Museum) in Austria will explore the impact of the First World War on the Home Front.

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Update on ‘Light Front’- tonight’s torchlight Western Front commemoration in Belgium

More details have been released of ‘Light Front’ – the torchlight remembrance event taking place on the former Western Front in Belgium tonight (October 17th 2014).

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Queen Elizabeth visits Tower of London’s Centenary poppies

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh paid tribute to the dead of the First World War during a visit to the Tower of London’s ceramic poppy fields on October 16th 2014.

October 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

The UK Guardian marks the centenary with an online interactive documentary

The Guardian online First World War documentary, published in 2014, is available in 7 different languages, with the voices of 10 historians from across the world.